Visual Studio link to different areas of code

Question

just wondering is there any feature in visual studio 2010 that allows you to put a link in your comments that take you to another part of the solution. Kind of like the bookmark feature but you go to the bookmark by clicking on the link.

I just think it would be neat to put a link to the unit test for each of my methods.

Answer 1

If you're using Resharper then you can navigate to any valid symbol placed in a doc-comment with ctrl-click.

For example

/// <summary>
/// <see cref="AReferencedMethod"/>
/// </summary>

Just ctrl-click and you're there.

Unfortunately I'm not sure this would be useful for referencing unit tests since the assembly under test is usually referenced by the unit test assembly not the other way around.

Answer 2

You can bake in a direct link to a file using the hypertext comment link like this:

//file://c:\users\project\myfile.cpp

However that opens the file in the built-in browser, not the code editor, which isn't much use. It also needs the full path as it doesn't seem to register project variables like $(SolutionDir).

However, if anyone on here is savvy at writing Visual Studio Plugins, I think an override of the hyperlink system would be a good place to start to get this working.

: D